“…When activated by sudden changes in the subject's environment, ACC may operate as a ''supervisory attentional system,'' able to promote the activity of the dorsolateral PFC for the integration of plans, instructions, stimulus processing, decision making, short-term memory updating, and response control [Shallice, 1988]. In this sense, the present results extend previous evidence suggesting that the directed attention is organized at the level of a distributed large-scale network revolving around three cortical epicentres (or local networks)-ACC, dorsolateral PFC, and posterior parietal cortex [Mesulam, 1981[Mesulam, , 1990[Mesulam, , 1999Nebel et al, 2005], which would provide a slightly different but interactive and complementary type of top-down attentional functions [Corbetta and Shulman, 2002;Fan et al, 2005;Kondo et al, 2004;Konrad et al, 2005;Luks et al, 2002;MacDonald et al, 2000;Milham et al, 2003].…”